Congratulations Oakhurst PTA on earning the distinction of a National PTA School of Excellence!!
2018-2020
Click HERE for a list of schools providing free meals to Pinellas County School students 18 and younger. This program is open to ALL PCS students!!
Congratulations to the following volunteers whowere voted in as the 2020-2021 Oakhurst PTA Executive Committee:
President--Denise Rohrs
Vice President--Krista Pincince
Treasurer--Angie Hay
Secretary--Sarah Filipek
These volunteers were voted in during the May 18th General Meeting. If you would like to help continue all the wonderful programs that PTA offers, please contact Denise Rohrs at: rohrd@gmail.com.
The PTA board would also like to give their sincere thanks to Suzanne Morgan, outgoing President, for her 9 years of service with the PTA. You will be missed!
PTA Celebrates 123 years of child advocacy!
PTA's Legacy
Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson Hearst founded the organization when women did not have the right to vote and social activism was not popular. However, they believed mothers would support their mission to eliminate threats that endangered children, and in early 1897, they started a nationwide campaign.
On Feb. 17, 1897, more than 2,000 people—mostly mothers, but also fathers, teachers, laborers and legislators—attended the first convocation of the National Congress of Mothers in Washington, D.C. Twenty years later, 37 chartered state congresses existed.
In 1970, the National Congress of Parents and Teachers (National PTA) and the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers (NCCPT)—founded by Selena Sloan Butler in Atlanta, Ga.—merged to serve all children.
As the largest volunteer child advocacy organization in the nation, National PTA is the conscience of the country for children and youth issues. Through advocacy, as well as family and community education, National PTA has established programs and called for legislation that improves our children’s lives, such as:
+Creation of Kindergarten classes +School Safety
+Hot and healthy lunch programs +Child Trafficking
+Juvenile justice system +Learning Disorders
+Mandatory immunization +Texting and Driving
+Arts in Education
Our founders represented women of imagination and courage. They had a simple idea—to improve the lives and future of all children. They understood the power of individual action, worked beyond the accepted barriers of their day, and took action to change the world for all children.
We continue the proud tradition of advocating for children and children's issues that was started 123 years ago!
Did you know Pinellas County Schools now have an app for your phone that lets you see students' schedule, grades, and attendance, and contains links to other important apps and web sites? Go to Google Play or the App Store and download the Pinellas County Schools App today, and login with your PCS credentials to get started. Don't know your FOCUS username and password? That's okay, stop by the school so they can set you up.
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Oakhurst Elementary PTA
10535 137th Street North, Largo, Florida 33774
www.oakhurstpta.com